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The 1864 Battle of Franklin was the second military action in the vicinity; a battle fought there on April 10, 1863, was a minor action associated with a reconnaissance in force by Confederate cavalry under Major General Earl Van Dorn.
Battle of Franklin: Confederate Order of Battle (Civil War Trust) Johnson's Division - Night attack at Franklin Battlefield Marker; U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; Series I, Volume XLV
The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Franklin of the American Civil War on November 30, 1864. Order of battle compiled from the army organization [1] during the campaign. [2] The Confederate order of battle is shown separately.
The Franklin–Nashville campaign, also known as Hood's Tennessee campaign, was a series of battles in the Western Theater, conducted from September 18 to December 27, 1864, [5] [6] in Alabama, Tennessee, and northwestern Georgia during the American Civil War.
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Knight, Charles R. Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, May 1864. New York: Savas Beatie, 2010. ISBN 978-1-932714-80-7. Parrish, T. Michael. Richard Taylor: Soldier Prince of Dixie. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8078-2032-6. Sheppard, Jonathan C.
The Samuel Boyd Map shows the positions of the Federal unit's camp sites at Franklin in 1863. [12] The Union position in Franklin was initially secure, and Fort Granger had only a small garrison. [6] Union troops hanged two Confederate spies on June 9, 1863. [6] The fort's artillery was used twice in 1863 against Confederate cavalry forces. [3]
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